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Federico Fellini. . . ( m. 1943; died 1993) . Giulia Anna " Giulietta " Masina (22 February 1921 – 23 March 1994) was an Italian film actress best known for her performances as Gelsomina in La Strada (1954) and Cabiria in Nights of Cabiria (1957), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival .
Giulietta Masina (born February 22, 1921, San Giorgio di Piano, near Bologna, Italy—died March 23, 1994, Rome) was an Italian motion-picture actress and the wife of Italian film director Federico Fellini. Her portrayal of waiflike innocents served as the emotional focal point for some of Fellini’s best films.
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Giulietta Masina was an Italian actress and the muse of Federico Fellini. She starred in his classics such as La strada, Nights of Cabiria and Juliet of the Spirits, and won an Oscar and a Cannes Film Festival award.
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- San Giorgio di Piano, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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- Rome, Lazio, Italy
Mar 24, 1994 · Giulietta Masina, the waiflike actress who became one of Italy's best-known movie stars, died today in a Rome hospital less than five months after the death of her husband, the director Federico ...
Learn about the life and career of Giulietta Masina, the Italian actress and Federico Fellini's wife and muse. Discover her roles in films like La strada, Le notti di Cabiria, and Giulietta degli spiriti.
Masina, Giulietta (1920–1994) Award-winning Italian actress who earned international recognition for her portrayal of Gelsomina in La Strada.Born Giulia Anna Masina on February 22, 1920, in San Giorgio di Piano, Italy; died of lung cancer on March 23, 1994, in Rome; youngest of four children of Gaetano Masina (erstwhile first violinist with Milan's Teatro Scala); grew up under the tutelage ...
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La strada is a 1954 film by Federico Fellini, starring his wife Giulietta Masina as a naive young woman who joins a traveling strongman. The film won the first Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film and is a poetic vision of life as a bittersweet carnival.
